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10 Tips to make your Laptop Battery last longer

Posted: July 15, 2010 in How To, Tutorials
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Computer Laptop Battery Care and Usage Tips for getting more from a notebook battery.

1. Turn off Wi-Fi and BlueTooth – Most laptops have shortcut keys to instantly disable wireless networking.

2. Don’t play computer games, music or DVD movies – Multimedia activities drain laptop batteries.

3. Disconnect all external device like PC Card modems, Firewire, USB devices and optical drives. Use the notebook touchpad instead of an external mouse.

4. Adjust your screen brightness – Dimming your display saves battery power.

5. Tweak Windows Power Options – Choose a Laptop power scheme that turns off the notebook monitor and hard disk after 10 minutes of inactivity.
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Skype Blocks, Threatens To Sue Fring (Update: Skype Says Fring Is Lying)

Posted: July 12, 2010 in Internet!, News
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Late last week, mobile communication services provider fring released an updated iPhone app that enabled iPhone 4 owners to engage in unrestricted 2-way video calling over Wi-Fi or 3G internet with other iPhone, Android or Symbian devices. This garnered a lot of attention, mainly because Apple’s native FaceTime application works only over Wi-Fi and between iPhone users.

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Install Google Chrome with YUM on Fedora, Red Hat (RHEL)

Posted: July 7, 2010 in How To
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This howto explains howto install Google Chrome Web browser on Fedora 12, Fedora 13 and Red Hat 6 (RHEL). Best way to install and keep up-to-date with Google Chrome browser is use Google’s own YUM repository.
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Download Pictures From Your Facebook Account with Pick&Zip

Posted: July 3, 2010 in How To
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Would you like to download pictures from your Facebook account and your friend’s Facebook pages? Here’s a nice web app that can help you quickly download your pictures so you can use them anyway you want.

Getting Started

If you’d like to download pictures from your Facebook account and your friends pages, Pick&Zip is a great tool that lets you download as many pictures as you want in a zip or PDF file. Head over to the Pick&Zip site to get started (link below), and click the Login with Facebook button near the bottom of the page.


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Nokia X6 NAM Firmware Updated to v20.0.005 v3.0

Posted: June 21, 2010 in mobile
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Users of an Nokia X6 NAM can now update the firmware to version 20.0.005 v3.0.

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Integrate Google Wave With Your Windows Workflow

Posted: June 21, 2010 in How To
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Have you given Google Wave a try, only to find it difficult to keep up with? Here’s how you can integrate Google Wave with your desktop and workflow with some free and simple apps.

Google Wave is an online web app, and unlike many Google services, it’s not easily integrated with standard desktop applications. Instead, you’ll have to keep it open in a browser tab, and since it is one of the most intensive HTML5 webapps available today, you may notice slowdowns in many popular browsers. Plus, it can be hard to stay on top of your Wave conversations and collaborations by just switching back and forth between the website and whatever else you’re working on. Here we’ll look at some tools that can help you integrate Google Wave with your workflow, and make it feel more native in Windows.

Use Google Wave Directly in Windows

What’s one of the best ways to make a web app feel like a native application? By making it into a native application, of course! Waver is a free Air powered app that can make the mobile version of Google Wave feel at home on your Windows, Mac, or Linux desktop. We found it to be a quick and easy way to keep on top of our waves and collaborate with our friends.
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Microsoft Office 2010 Now Available Worldwide

Posted: June 15, 2010 in News
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Mircrosoft’s much hyped new version of its productivity suite, Microsoft Office 2010, is debuting to the public today and will now be available for purchase at 35,000 retail stores and a number of online retailers including Best Buy and Amazon.com.

Of course, many will find the new version pre-installed in their PCs upon purchase. In a release, Microsoft says that in the next year, more than 100 million PCs will ship with Office 2010 preloaded, which users can then purchase.

The suite, which was announced last year (see our coverage here), had 9 million downloads in its beta program. One of the more notable features in the suite is the interconnectivity between the web and the desktop.

Office 2010 Home and Student is priced at $149, and Office 2010 Home and Business runs at $249. However, you can already find discounted versions of the suites on Amazon.com

VLC (VideoLAN) ‘The luggage’ for Windows 1.1.0 RC3

Posted: June 12, 2010 in Downloads!
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VLC (VideoLAN) is a multi-platform multimedia player. It can read DVDs, VCDs, MPEG, and DivX files and from a satellite card. It can also read a stream from a network sent by the VideoLAN Server or another source. The stream can be MPEG 2 TS in UDP or HTTP packets unicasted or multicasted on an IPv4 or IPv6 network.

New Features

* GPU and DSP decoding, depending on the platform
* Faster and more stable
* New codecs and HD codecs enhancements
* MKV, mp4 and avi improvements
* Extensions
* Important code cleanup and rewrite
* Interface and playlist reworked
* Completely Free

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Know If Your PC Can Run Specific Game

Posted: June 8, 2010 in How To
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You want to play a high-end 3D game. You go to the stores and buy it paying few bucks and come home. The next thing you’ll do is open the computer and install it on your desktop or notebook. After the installation is over you’ll definitely run the game. But, puff the screen goes black, white, shows error, your pc goes insane. You again go back to your CD cover and check out minimum system requirements. You find that you’ve latest hardware configuration but even though your pc is finding hard to run the game.

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Box.net Adopts HTML5; Adds Drag And Drop Functionality Between The Web And Desktop

Posted: June 6, 2010 in Internet!, News
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Cloud storage and document sharing startup Box.net is the latest startup to adopt HTML5. The startup is announced that it is incorporating a broad implementation of HTML5 drag and drop functionality that supports native interaction with desktop. So basically, you can drag and drop files from the desktop right into your Box.net web application.

The feature works on Firefox 3.6 and Chrome for PC (with support for Safari and Chrome on all platforms coming in the next few weeks). Box’s CEO and co-founder Aaron Levie says that Flash didn’t allow this at all due to security issues. While this is a small addition in terms of functionality, he believes that HTML5 provides a much richer user experience when it comes to enterprise applications and the interaction between the browser and the operating system . “HTML5 is the nail on the coffin of desktop applications because we can create this rich interactive experience that acts like a native app.” Levie adds that HTML5 is also appealing because it works on every device.

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